The BBC’s letting loonies gag me with mink knickers

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I have to tell two people what I’m planning on saying. If I don’t, I am summarily dismissed

Last week Nigella Lawson went on the television and said she’d like to shoot a bear and turn it into a coat. Nothing wrong with that. We hear all the time from people who would never wear a fur coat, so why should we not occasionally hear from someone who would?

Unfortunately, however, in the current climate it is no longer possible to express an opinion on TV because you are bound to upset a pressure group that then runs around waving its arms in the air and calling for you to be sacked or shot or turned into a hat.

Nigella, for instance, has enraged an organisation called Viva!, which stands for Vegetarians International Voice for Animals. And another called Peta, which stands for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Neither is very big or very important. I’d guess they have even fewer members than the Church of England. But they have websites, and they have spokeswomen, and they are always prepared to come up with a quote when contacted by reporters.

Jeremy Clarkson

from the times online,
read the whole article & the comments.
excelent, pure Clarkson

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although I consider JC an extremist himself, he does occasionally make some very valid points :smiley:

here’s a good quote (thanks to my other half :slight_smile: )

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
    Voltaire, (Attributed); originated in "The Friends of Voltaire", 1906, by S. G. Tallentyre (Evelyn Beatrice Hall)
    French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 - 1778)